Brian Tracy outlines five steps to happiness: listen to your heart, be true to yourself, accept you deserve it, do what makes you happy, and pay the price through interim sacrifices. He frames happiness as personal, not one-size-fits-all.
When you decide to make your happiness the chief organizing principle of your life, everything else will fall into place and you'll probably never make another mistake. Hello, I'm Brian Tracy, and today I want to give you my proven strategies for improving your life and achieving the highest degree of personal happiness. The good thing is that being happy and fulfilled is something that you can learn to do and be. You must first keep in mind that happiness in life is like a smorgasbord. If 100 people went to a smorgasbord or buffet and each put food on their plate in the quantity and mix that each felt would be most pleasing to them, every plate would be different. Even a husband and wife would go up to the smorgasbord and come back with plates that look completely different. Happiness is the same way. Each person requires a particular combination of certain ingredients to feel the very best about himself or herself. So here are five ways to achieve your own happiness in life. The first thing you should always do is to listen to your heart. The ingredients in your happiness are changing continually. If you went to the same smorgasbord every day for a year, you would probably come back with a different plateful of food each time. Only you can tell what it takes to make you happy. But to condition yourself, to learn how to be happy, you must get in touch with your feelings and listen to your heart. This is the only way to judge whether a job, relationship, an investment, or any decision the right one for you. The next thing you need to do is always be true to yourself. You're true to yourself only when you follow your inner light, your inner guidance. When you listen to what Ralph Waldo Emerson called the still small voice within, you're being the very best person you can be. Only when you have the courage and the fortitude to allow your definition I happiness, whatever it may be, to be the guiding light of every part of your life. The third thing you must do is to understand that you deserve to be happy. A very important point on the subject of happiness is whether or not you feel that you deserve to be happy in the first place. If you don't feel like you deserve it, you must learn how to be happy. By accepting the notion that you deserve it all, you deserve all the happiness you can honestly attain through the application of your talents and abilities. The more you like and respect yourself, the more deserving you will feel of all the good things in life. And the more deserving you feel, the more likely you will attain and hold on to the happiness that you are Working toward the fourth element on the path to happiness is doing the things that make you happy. This sounds simple, but not everyone takes the time to evaluate what makes them the happiest. You should do things that make you happy and consider happiness the organizing principle of your life. Compare every possible action and decision you make against your standard of happiness to see whether that action would make you happier or unhappier. Soon you will discover that almost all the problems in your life come from choices that you have made or are currently making that do not contribute to your happiness. The fifth and final thing you must do to achieve happiness is to pay the price. Of course, there are countless times when you will have to do little things that don't make you happy along the way toward those larger things that make you very happy. We call this paying the price of success in advance. You must pay your dues. Sometimes these interim steps don't make you happy directly, but the happiness you achieve from attaining your goal will be so great that it totally overwhelms the temporary inconvenience and dissatisfaction you had to endure in order to get there in the first place. Remember, achieving your own happiness is the best measure of how well you are living your life and enjoying your relationships. So in order to learn how to be happy, you must be willing to work hard and pay the price for the satisfaction and rewards that you desire. Before we wrap up, I'd like to leave you with a thought to share with your friends and followers. It is this when you decide to make your happiness the chief will organizing principle of your life, everything else will fall into place and you'll probably never make another mistake. Now I'd love to hear from you. So my question today is what one thing are you going to begin doing today to ensure you start living a life you love? Leave a comment below and I'll be sure to follow up with you. Thanks for watching. And remember, if you want to change your life and future, take action and take action now. 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